The Queer Tango Newsletter | April 2015

Sharing insights, ideas and Queer Tango events

Dear Reader

The Queer Tango Image Archive aims to use historical imagery to stimulate debate about the relationship of our 21st century, Queer Tango and tango’s past - including all the same-gender dancing which has occurred throughout its history. Ray Batchelor and Gonzalo Collazo from The Queer Tango Project have been working on this website for a year together with Birthe Havmoeller. We hope you will enjoy looking at these historical images - and we hope they will make you think.

Do you have a relevant historical image? Why not share it by offering a digital copie of it to The Archive?

Muse of Modernity? Remembering, Mediating and Modernising Popular Dance Saturday April 16, 2016 Torrington Room, Senate House, University of London, London, UK This symposium seeks to address the mediated memories of popular dance practices. From the colonial circulation of dance prints to YouTube, popular dances have been ‘captured’ in mediated forms. As texts, artworks, films and digital files, popular dance … Read more.

Video (5:07): SANGRA TANGO by Luizo Vega (2014), a fascinating short film/dance video in which the emotional relationship between two male tangueros is visualised as them fighting, so that the dancefloor ... Read more.

Queer Tango Activism

Video (6:28): shortfilm documenting the Flashmob: A tango against Homophobia IV, organised in solidarity with homosexual people who officially are criminalized in 90 countries around the world. The event took place in Buenos Aires, 2015. Read more.

3rd Contact Tango intensive week with Adriana Pegorer: Interplay & Creativity 29 August - 4 September 2016 near Toulouse, France This week is about the fusion of tango argentino with contact improvisation and is led by Adriana Pegorer, a professional dancer who has been teaching and dancing tango in the leading and following roles for many years. Contact Tango has … Read more.

Abrazos

Birthe Havmoeller, Ray Batchelor and Olaya Aramo

The Queer Tango Project / www.queertangoproject.org

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